The Creating Safer Space project ‘Understanding Community-level Spontaneous Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): A Comparative Study of Initiatives in South Sudan, Myanmar and Colombia’, has engaged policymakers to strengthen unarmed civilian protection in Nariño, Colombia.
The team organised an event to disseminate their policy brief, Civilians Protecting Civilians, in London on 21 March 2024. The event included the participation of H.E. Roy Barreras, Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, Louise Winstanley, from the British civil society organisation ABColombia and Victoria Bird, from the UK Foreign Office.
The policy brief was published by Rodeemos el Diálogo and written by Karen Arteaga Garzón and Andrei Gómez-Suárez, with illustrations by Sebastián Bucheli. The policy brief is available in English and Spanish.
